LMS Route: Birmingham West Suburban Railway

Bournville Shed: mrb21

Ex-MR 2P 4-4-2T No 2099 seen side on inside the roundhouse at Bournville on Saturday 15th June 1935. Built in October 1900 by Sharp Stewart & Company of Glasgow for the LTSR, it entered service as their No 58 "Hornsey Road". It was one of eighteen engines known as the 51 class, all of which carried names.. The Midland Railway took over the LTSR in 1912 and renumbered its engines. No 58 became their No 2165. ,The LMSR further renumbered the former LTSR 51 class engines in 1927/1928. No 2165 then became No 2099. It was transferred to the Birmingham area in the 1930s, along with many others of its class, as a temporary replacement for the troubled 0-6-4Ts, all the transferred engines retaining their Westinghouse brakes. In 1948 No 2099 was allocated British Railways No 41917, but this was never carried. It was withdrawn in March 1951 from Nottingham shed and broken up in April at Crewe.

John Dews

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